Over the past few days (starting around Friday) we had continuing fallout with the science database repairs made over the previous weeks. Nothing we couldn't diagnose quickly or handle, but there were patches of low workunit availability. Long story short, after rebuilding our workunit table we hit some index corruption issues that didn't rear their head until we suddenly stumbled upon them.

Today we dropped all the indexes and rebuilt them from scratch during the usual weekly outage. So far so good. I also used the outage this week to upgrade the OS on the scheduling server (which was fairly out of date).

We also brought in some freshly compiled splitters which contain new database plumbing - a step toward us having the splitters themselves being more sensitive to telescope status when the data were recorded. This code is currently dormant but after some testing and calibration will ultimately keep us from creating and sending out large numbers of "noisy" workunits.

This plumbing however hasn't been compiled yet into the Astropulse splitters, which is why they shall remain off for now.

- Matt-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Thank you for the update Matt. I can hardly wait for the new servers to arrive, and be of some help. I remember well the anticipation of when oscar and carolyn arrived.

Steve

Yes, thank you Matt so much for the info once again, it is always of much interest to us what goes on each week. Helps some with a little less patience understand the things you have to deal with just to keep the project running.

And the kitties are rather excited about the pending arrival of the new servers as well!!!Cats.....what more does one need?

We also brought in some freshly compiled splitters which contain new database plumbing - a step toward us having the splitters themselves being more sensitive to telescope status when the data were recorded. This code is currently dormant but after some testing and calibration will ultimately keep us from creating and sending out large numbers of "noisy" workunits.

This plumbing however hasn't been compiled yet into the Astropulse splitters, which is why they shall remain off for now.

Steady, Sten-Arne. AP will be back eventually, and it will be better than ever. You WILL survive. Just go ahead and allow MB now and it will stretch out your APs a bit. It's not the end of the world...

Thanks for the update, Matt.DavidSitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Steady, Sten-Arne. AP will be back eventually, and it will be better than ever. You WILL survive. Just go ahead and allow MB now and it will stretch out your APs a bit. It's not the end of the world...

Thanks for the update, Matt.

No problems whatsoever. I managed during the days when AP's where easy to get, to accumulate so many AP's, that I can stand an AP drought lasting for 2 weeks or more. I do not need to allow any MB's into my AP only machine, and I do not need to run any MB's on the CPU's of my Nvidia computers either.

I will just relax, and wait patiently for whenever they turn on the AP splitters again.

Burp.....:-)

This is a test of the Emergency Moron System. Had there been a real moron in the room, there would've been a small mushroom cloud in the place where the idiot had been standing.

Steady, Sten-Arne. AP will be back eventually, and it will be better than ever. You WILL survive. Just go ahead and allow MB now and it will stretch out your APs a bit. It's not the end of the world...

Thanks for the update, Matt.

No problems whatsoever. I managed during the days when AP's where easy to get, to accumulate so many AP's, that I can stand an AP drought lasting for 2 weeks or more. I do not need to allow any MB's into my AP only machine, and I do not need to run any MB's on the CPU's of my Nvidia computers either.

I will just relax, and wait patiently for whenever they turn on the AP splitters again.

Something is strange here...

Burp.....:-)

Ah hah! Just as I thought. You're drunk.DavidSitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.